{"id":540,"date":"2009-09-24T06:19:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-09-24T06:19:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:19:39","slug":"eureka-the-final-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/eureka-the-final-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Eureka – the final tax!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And from the editorial pundits at the New York Times<\/em> comes a new wrinkle in the effort to end poverty and cure disease – “A tiny levy of 0.005 percent on transactions involving the world\u2019s most traded currencies \u2014 the dollar, the euro, the pound and the yen \u2014 would raise more than $33 billion annually for development, while not hurting the market or affecting the average international traveler.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Or so says Philippe Douste-Blazy, “the French foreign minister from 2005 to 2007, is the chairman of Unitaid and a special adviser to the United Nations secretary general on innovative financing.”<\/p>\n

This brings up a dazzling point that the world’s financial geniuses must’ve simply overlooked in their haste to straighten out the world’s plethora of problems – the way to skin the cat is to quit messing around with rinky dinky “tiny taxes” and go for the proverbial jugular – a tax on opinions!<\/p>\n

You heard it right – a tiny tax on blogs, blurbs, op-eds, letters to the editor, tweets, blips, and other assorted nefarious brain farts<\/em>. <\/p>\n

And that includes this blog! What a relief, to be compelled to pay for every bit of my blognog being spewed into the Blogosphere. Of course, yours truly wouldn’t actually pony up when the bill arrived. Instead, I could quit this nonsense and get back to what humanoids were meant to do in the first place – laze around the hearth with a leg bone in one hand and a glass of Meursault<\/em> in the other. <\/p>\n

salut!<\/p>\n

posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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